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In the presence of Polish President Andrzei Duda and other top
officials from both church and state, Jesus Christ was officially
recognized as the King of Poland in a Catholic ceremony. Declared to be
Poland's Lord and Savior, the Messiah was asked to rule over the Polish
nation, its people, and its government. The ceremony was held last month
at the Church of Divine Mercy in Krakow and then repeated at churches
across Poland, marking the 1050th anniversary of the nation's
Christianity. The congregation also renounced the devil and all his evil
works.
Of course, as more than a few church leaders pointed out, the
ceremony did not actually “make” Christ the King of Poland. That is
because, in the Christian worldview, Jesus Christ is already King of
kings, as well as King over all His creation. So, instead of actually
“making” Jesus the King, the Polish ceremony enthroning Christ
recognized that sovereignty, with the formalities being described by
officials and celebrants as a sign of the willing submission of Poland
and its people to the rule of Christ. The ceremony was also not intended
to, and could not, add to Jesus' honor or power, religious leaders
cautioned. Throughout the mass, though, Christ was asked to rule over
every aspect of Polish life.

The people and their leaders prayed for Christ to reign. “Immortal
King of Ages Lord Jesus Christ, our God and Savior! In the Jubilee Year
1050 anniversary of the Baptism of the Polish people, in the
Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, here we Poles bow our heads before you,
King of the Universe, together with the authorities, clergy and laity,
to acknowledge your reign and dominion over Poland, those living in our
homeland and throughout the world,” Poland declared at the ceremony. “We
surrender to Thy law, entrust and take you to our homeland and the
whole nation.... We confess before heaven and earth, that your reign we
need.... Wishing to worship the majesty of Thy power and glory, with
great faith and love, we cry out: Rule us Christ!”
During the ceremony, Jesus was asked by the clergy and those
attending to forgive their sin individually and as a nation. In
particular, they asked to be forgiven for turning away from the faith
and for not loving God and other people. “We renounce the devil and all
his works,” they added.
The Poles and their religious and governmental leaders also asked
Jesus to rule over everything. “In our hearts, rule us, Christ! In our
families, rule us, Christ! In our schools and universities, rule us,
Christ! Through the Polish nation, rule us, Christ!” they asked. “We
pledge to defend your holy worship and preach Thy royal glory, Christ
our King, we promise! We entrust the Polish people and Polish leaders to
you. Make them exercise their power fairly and in accordance with your
laws ... rule us, Christ! Reign in our homeland and reign in every
nation — for the greater glory of the Most Holy Trinity and the
salvation of mankind.”
The principle celebrant of the mass was Krakow’s Catholic Cardinal,
Stanislaw Dziwisz. Before the mass began, he spoke, as well. “We would
like to invite Him into our hearts and families, to our communities and
environments,” Cardinal Dziwisz was quoted as saying. “We want to invite
him for all that Poland is. Do not be afraid of such an act. Jesus
Christ takes nothing away from us, and gives everything. His reign
threatens no one, because it is expressed through love, which was
crucified.”
Other top clerics offered more insight into the significance of it
all. “The only Ruler of states, nations and the whole of creation, the
King of kings and Lord of rulers, we entrust your Polish and Polish
rulers,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, president of the Polish Episcopal
Conference, was quoted as saying. He also asked Jesus to make all those
in power exercise it fairly and for governments to operate in line with
the laws of Christ the King. The archbishop, who leads the Polish
Bishop's Conference, also asked for Christ's mercy, especially on Poles
“who do not follow your ways.”
Speaking after the ceremony, Bishop Andrzej Czaja explained that the
effort was not a declaration of Christ as King, “because He is King.”
“His kingdom is not of this earth, and his dominion is over the whole
universe,” the bishop added, saying people should recognize Christ's
reign over the entire creation and should also submit to His law.
The main ceremony took place on November 19, one day before the
Catholic feast of Christ the King. But the historic event in Krakow,
which was largely ignored outside Poland by the secular media, was
inspired by what is said to have been a divine revelation given to a
Polish nurse. According to Fr. Paul McDonald, writing in Rorate Caeli:
“The providential and proximate origin of the act is to be found in
revelations received, or said to be received, by the Servant of God
Rosalia Zelkova.”
Zelkova, the nurse, reportedly said that Christ asked to be formally
enthroned as King by the Polish Nation, “and not just in the hearts of
the Poles, in a particular manner, and this would have saved Poland in
the war that was coming,” McDonald said. And while neither church nor
government leaders supported the idea fifty years ago — or even as
recently as a decade ago — much has changed since then as Poland becomes
increasingly religious and conservative following decades of ruthless
communist oppression.
The Catholic site ChurchMilitant.com also said the act was consistent
with a 1925 encyclical by Pope Pius XI. “Once men recognize, both in
private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last
receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline,
peace and harmony,” the Pontiff wrote at the time. The website also
noted that Peru, under President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, had recently
been officially consecrated to Christ as well.
Numerous lawmakers and senior officials commented on the ceremony,
saying Poland needed to hold fast to its faith and its traditions.
Despite generations of savage communist totalitarianism, the people of
Poland remained firm in their faith. Polls show close to 90 percent of
Poles identify as Catholic, and about two thirds of those regularly
attend church services. Most of the rest of the population is either
Orthodox or Protestant, with less than one percent of the population
practicing Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, or Hinduism. Poland has also
resisted EU efforts to force member nations to accept the mass Islamic
immigration, which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said was orchestrated by a “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine Christianity, the West, and the nation-state.
Some critics opposed to moral absolutes blasted the ceremony. The
far-left "Vice News," for example, said “it's another step the
conservative government has taken towards forcing outdated morals on the
Polish people.” However, officials and religious leaders said the
ceremony was not about imposing anything on anyone, or coercion. And as The New Americanreported late last year,
the Polish people voted so overwhelmingly for their conservative
leadership that, for the first time since World War II, not a single
left-wing lawmaker remained in Parliament.
With the Soviet regime and its puppets in Eastern Europe ostensibly having collapsed,
Poland's Christian traditions and laws have been under growing threat
from the Brussels-based European Union instead. Polish laws protecting
unborn children, for example, have been under relentless assault by the
EU and all of its organs of power. Separately, marriage and the family
have also been under relentless siege, with increasingly radicalized EU
leaders trying to re-define — or un-define — marriage across the entire
bloc, using any means possible. Even pro-homosexual groups with documented pro-pedophilia connections have been showered with EU tax money.
Many Christians around the world, and particularly Catholics,
rejoiced at the news out of Poland. However, despite its significance,
the national event was barely reported outside Poland, with the
exception of Christian and alternative media outlets in the United
States. Instead, it seems the establishment media across the United
States and Europe were too busy manufacturing fake outrage over alleged “fake news” to
notice or care. At least one globalist EU propaganda organ, though,
publicly worried that Atheists and Muslims might be deported from Poland
now. Lawmakers from the ruling party have ridiculed and downplayed the
concerns.
But while Christ may be officially the King of Poland (and all
creation), in the United States and what was long known as Christendom —
not to mention communist and Islamic countries — Christianity is under
massive attack. Indeed, research and studies have documented a fierce hostility to Christianity and Christians by the ruling establishment.
Professors George Yancey and David Williamson, sociologists at the
University of North Texas, presented their findings recently in the book
So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
Of course, the Bible and Jesus predicted that Christians and the Truth
would be hated by the world, so the findings are hardly surprising.
Ironically, though, Christianity has always tended to spread even more quickly in the face of persecution.
The Conference of Polish Bishops noted that the official enthronement
of Christ as King of Poland last month is “not the culmination, but the
beginning of the work of enthronement of Jesus Christ in Poland and the
Polish nation.” What the formal enthronement of Christ as King of
Poland might mean for policy remains to be seen.

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